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22 Document No. 11. [Session
applied as remedies. And by experiment it has been found
that manual training tends to develop character, mind and
body, as well as to give such information as will be necessary
to success in after life." The Sloyd system is .being intro-duced
into many schools for the sighted, and some for the
blind. " It has for its first object, to give an indirect prepa-ration
for life by teaching branches of certain trades and by
imparting a general dexterity to the hands, to train the hand
to be the obedient servant of the brain." While this is im-portant
to all children, it is especially so to the blind. And
we should be glad, by your consent, to introduce this system
into our school. The kindergarten methods are used in
almost all schools for the blind, and have been found to be
very helpful, and are now considered essential to the proper
training of blind children. I most earnestly recommend
that you devise some means by which our pupils can have
the benefit of these methods at an early day. The little
attention we have given to physical training has had a good
influence on the children and the entire work, as well as on
the health of our school, and we hope at no distant day to
have far better facilities for this very important branch of
education.
While it is of the greatest importance that every blind
bo}T
, and girl, too, as far as possible, should have manual
training and a thorough industrial education, still that is not
enough, our responsibility is not yet at an end. Many of
them go to their homes without a cent of money, and no
father, mother, brother or sister able to help them, and
some with not even a home to go to. We send them out
adrift on the cold world and feel that we have done all we
could for them, and give ourselves no more concern about
them. In our opinion, the Institution ought to furnish them
with tools, materials and supplies to enable them to start in
business. If a boy has learned to cane-seat chairs, give him
a few bunches of cane, or if he makes brooms, give him a
tying and sewing-machine, a little wire and a bale of broom

22 Document No. 11. [Session
applied as remedies. And by experiment it has been found
that manual training tends to develop character, mind and
body, as well as to give such information as will be necessary
to success in after life." The Sloyd system is .being intro-duced
into many schools for the sighted, and some for the
blind. " It has for its first object, to give an indirect prepa-ration
for life by teaching branches of certain trades and by
imparting a general dexterity to the hands, to train the hand
to be the obedient servant of the brain." While this is im-portant
to all children, it is especially so to the blind. And
we should be glad, by your consent, to introduce this system
into our school. The kindergarten methods are used in
almost all schools for the blind, and have been found to be
very helpful, and are now considered essential to the proper
training of blind children. I most earnestly recommend
that you devise some means by which our pupils can have
the benefit of these methods at an early day. The little
attention we have given to physical training has had a good
influence on the children and the entire work, as well as on
the health of our school, and we hope at no distant day to
have far better facilities for this very important branch of
education.
While it is of the greatest importance that every blind
bo}T
, and girl, too, as far as possible, should have manual
training and a thorough industrial education, still that is not
enough, our responsibility is not yet at an end. Many of
them go to their homes without a cent of money, and no
father, mother, brother or sister able to help them, and
some with not even a home to go to. We send them out
adrift on the cold world and feel that we have done all we
could for them, and give ourselves no more concern about
them. In our opinion, the Institution ought to furnish them
with tools, materials and supplies to enable them to start in
business. If a boy has learned to cane-seat chairs, give him
a few bunches of cane, or if he makes brooms, give him a
tying and sewing-machine, a little wire and a bale of broom